ProntoWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.0.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-17 (1 day ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Andreas Gohr
PukiWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL 2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
One theme, one PukiWiki
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
none
Datastorage ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
None
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
No
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Optional
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Output ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki DokuWiki PukiWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
'''italic'''
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
__underlined__
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
N/A
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<del>strikethrough</del>
%%strikethrough%%
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Plugin
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
N/A
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
:term|definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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